Dad's Birthday Crossword

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Across
  1. 5. Reuse art, don't bury it on some kind of island (7)
  2. 6. Is the car a lemon? No, it’s just French (7)
  3. 9. Actress with a knife? You must have misheard (5, 11)
  4. 11. A vessel unsuitable for a messy chips & peas (9)
  5. 13. 47 from ‘46 stop U? (6, 5)
  6. 14. Which [sic] means of transport is best for cleaning (10)
  7. 15. Not the same or otherwise, but...meh (11)
  8. 16. Warn Hal - it looks like a unicorn (7)
  9. 17. Poles saw war here (6)
  10. 19. Sounds like a car or van, but you can live in it (7)
  11. 21. Stars are made where it is always Christmassy (10)
  12. 24. Let Tony’s car caning be a confused threat from Ian Rush (10, 7)
  13. 27. The second letter of the alphabet really is great (6)
  14. 28. Spanish chicken in space (6)
  15. 29. Large, hairy man in a police car is bamboozled (5, 4)
  16. 31. Pachyderm or Bigfoot? No, just sick (13)
  17. 33. Vallettani chocolates (9)
  18. 35. Longform poem about parallel dimensions (10)
  19. 38. Arty, pugilistic ditty from Paul (3, 5)
  20. 39. “Unscramble it? I can’t!” The distracted ship’s captain uttered ominously (7)
  21. 41. Golf plant? No, just Camellia sinensis found in a tee range (5, 3)
Down
  1. 1. He wrestled with his alter ego, as rock-solid as it was (6, 7)
  2. 2. Lady of the night roaming for customers. Actors, ideally (3, 6)
  3. 3. Starbuck’s location in space - just a pilot, for now (10, 9)
  4. 4. Huge downturn in fossil fuels (8)
  5. 7. Author that almost wrote about the riots of dogs (5, 3, 7)
  6. 8. If you get it wrong, making a drink from blackthorn is a loseing endeavour (4, 3)
  7. 10. Ewar Woowar needs deez (6, 8)
  8. 12. Michael’s stroll on the dark side (8)
  9. 18. Look closely to see the time (5)
  10. 20. Singer sounds like fast fashion (6, 5)
  11. 22. Source of flame weighs less (7)
  12. 23. Has a key to enter, but no door handle (8)
  13. 25. Cameron’s party was quite traditional. They always are! (13)
  14. 26. A small rodent can be handy for pointing (5)
  15. 30. Rather eloquently, he explained the mechanics of jointed vehicles (11)
  16. 32. Giving birth is hard work (6)
  17. 34. “Fe-female?” he stuttered. “She’s a bit mixed up, but that great charmer can run a country!” (8, 8)
  18. 36. Word containing a single letter (8)
  19. 37. Luke’s spaced-out dad “T” raved hard (5, 5)
  20. 40. The worldly Olbeg family found themselves scattered here (5)